Excerpt from The Southern Planter, Vol. 20: Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, and the Household Arts, May, 1860For all drainage purpose he reprehends shallow trenches, observing, in 1e8pect to bog-drainage, But for these common and many trenches, oft times crooked too, that men usually make in their bogg oty grounds, some one foot, some two, never having re spect to the cause or matter that maketh the bog, I say, away with them as a great piece of folly, lost labour, and spoyle, which I desire as well to preserve the reader from.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.